Pituitary carcinoma recurrent to the lumbar intradural extramedullary space: Case report

Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-121

  Arnold, Paul M ^a   Ratnasingam, Denesh ^b   O'Neil, Maura F ^a   Johnson, Philip L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disc, intervertebral, L3 L4; Metastases, neoplasm; Pituitary adenoma, ACTH secreting; Pituitary carcinoma; Spinal cord neoplasms, intradural extramedullary, L2 L3

Indexed keywords

TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLURRED VISION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CAROTID ARTERY; CASE REPORT; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CUSHING DISEASE; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LAMINECTOMY; LEG; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MENSTRUATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECURRENT CANCER; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINE FRACTURE; TREATMENT DURATION; VERTEBRA BODY; WALKING AID;

CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84858995774     PISSN: 10790268     EISSN: 20457723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2045772311Y.0000000055     Document Type: Article

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